I’m not, and have never been, a big fan of change. The trouble is, if parenting comes with one guarantee it is the inevitability of change. I was talking to a friend this week about how much I’ve forgotten related to the baby stage of parenting because changing diapers and cleaning bottles seems like a lifetime ago….
If I’m being honest, spring is not my favorite season. Something about the turbulence of the weather {storms!}, the pollen, and the reminder that I need to clean and organize every corner of our house leaves me less a fan of spring and more a fan of autumn. But, the beginning of every season in this…
This winter the 4th Grader will turn ten years old, which means I will have been a parent for a decade. It also means that same 4th Grader–my oldest child–is more than halfway to adulthood. I can hardly wrap my mind around that fact. We have lived in the house we are in now for five years….
For the past few weeks one of the girls has been battling some anxiety about school and has come to the conclusion that it would be best if she didn’t go at all. The battle begins when she won’t get out of bed with claims that she doesn’t feel well, and it escalates as she refuses…